Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c85.77

v2.c85.77

We have now practically closed our survey of the principal Post-dhvani writers who deserve mention. The school of *kavi-śikṣā* and the erotic *rasa*-writers stand apart in many respects, and we propose to deal with them separately in the following chapters. But the above account of the Post-dhvani writers must not be supposed to exhaust the extraordinary wealth of scholastic activity of this period. The commentators and textbook-writers continued to multiply, and a glance at their names given in our preceding volume²⁶ will show the extent to which their activity was carried; but hardly any of these later works, except perhaps Jagannātha’s *Rasa-gaṅgādhara*, with an account of which we shall close our survey, deserves separate or detailed mention. Even Keśava Miśra’s *Alaṃkāra-śekhara*²⁷, or Acyuta Rāya's more modern *Sāhitya-sāra*, convenient and well-written compendiums as they are, and standing as they do much above the average, add hardly